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Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded network for all those interested in fables, nonhumans & multispecies storytelling www.rethinking-fables.org.uk

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Emily Doolittle @emilydoolittle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A collaboration between me, @amsouth.bsky.social & Lesley Harrison, performed at @rethinkingfable.bsky.social (www.rethinking-fables.org.uk). Lesley & Alex weave together pieces by me and Alex and a poem by Lesley to create a new fable, "The Gannet and the Whale". www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55d...
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The Gannet and the Whale (May 24, 2025, Rethinking Fables)
YouTube video by Kaori Nagai
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Our final conference included a storytelling workshop called ‘Changing Fables’, led by Prof. Vinciane Despret. Here’s a brief report I’m excited to share. Enjoy 😊 -- heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in this memorable session. www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/changing-fab...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Excited to share that our ‘Spider fable’ collaboration was featured in this fantastic blog post! www.uc.edu/news/article... Huge thanks to Nathan Morehouse, Cass Lynch, Josie Turnbull and Lisa-Jean Moore for making this project happen. ‬ @arachnology.bsky.social ‪ @britishspiders.bsky.social
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There once was a biologist who talked to spiders …
UC biologist and spider expert Nathan Morehouse helped a writing collaboration at Kent University explore our common ground with these eight-legged creatures that fascinate us.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Spotted two majestic Kudus in Camden this Saturday, part of The Herds stampede. Incredible to see these creatures come to life & transform the street into a space of powerful storytelling. It was a priviledge to meet them & wishing them a safe journey north.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So happy to have been commissioned to write this sequence of poems for the @rethinkingfable.bsky.social project.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Check out Susan Richardson's powerful poem sequence ‘The Sack and the Selki’e — a moving exploration of how plastic pollution is affecting seals. Huge thanks again to Susan for writing this amazing piece for the ‘Rethinking Fables’ project. @susanrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/vQ1wfvlUcWU
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Susan Richardson, The Sack and the Selkie
YouTube video by Kaori Nagai
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Maisie Tomlinson @maisie-tom.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am delighted to announce that the recording of Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh's keynote speeches at our final conference are now available from this site: www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/final-confer... Please have a look and enjoy! 😊
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Just wrapped 3 incredible days at the Rethinking Fables final conference! Huge thanks to our amazing speakers, attendees & performers who made this truly unforgettable. So many fabulous things happened during this conference 😊
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Suniti Namjoshi kindly designed a fable-writing exercise for our project. Can you take up the challenge? www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/challenge-su...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference is happening now! Please join us if you can. Also please check out the online resources/exhibition (just launched) www.rethinking-fables.org.uk
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Rethinking Fables Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis
Welcome to Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis (2023-2025), an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded networking project, led by Dr. Kaori Nagai, Senior Lecturer in Victor...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference kicks off tomorrow. Big thanks to the speakers — really excited to meet you soon! research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Dr. Candice Allmark-Kent @callmarkkent.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Absolutely thrilled that next Thursday I'll be speaking at the Rethinking Fables conference and sharing what I've learned from reading Ernest Thompson Seton's journals. This is brand new research, so I'm excited to share it properly for the first time.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Tickets are now available for the Rethinking Fables storytelling event on May 24, 2025 (6–8pm), featuring Indian fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, a fable-in-music performance, and other fables. If you're near Canterbury, come along and spread the word. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/rethi...
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Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis: A Storytelling Event - Gulbenkian
We are delighted that renowned Indian fabulist Suniti Namjoshi will be among our storytellers, alongside a fable-in-music collaboration by Scottish poet Lesley Harrison and Zoomusicologists Alex South...
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Seamless Trade @seamlesstrade.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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If the Camel Could Speak – Reflections on Trade, Fables, and Global Connections
The introduction to the volume "Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World" opens with a reference to an Aesop’s fable about a merchant and his camel, capturing the essence of human-animal relat...
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A great conversation between Kaori Nagai and Suniti Namjoshi on fabulating birds and other animals - "Birds Talk Back" @rethinkingfable.bsky.social research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Registration is still open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22–24, 2025, U of Kent & online), featuring keynote speakers Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh. We’d love for you to join us 😊 Please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Please take a look at my conversation with the fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, ‘Birds Talk Back’. Your thoughts and comments are most welcome! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Shreyasi @itswhilereading.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The wonderful @rethinkingfable.bsky.social made this lovely video of the workshop on Fable Writing. youtu.be/ouhOByeS6hw I had a stimulating time preparing for it and then facilitating it. Thank you to the participants for trusting their wonderful stories to this process of inquiry. Keep writing ✍🏽
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Writing Environmental Fables in Kent (November 20, 2024)
YouTube video by Kaori Nagai
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
There's also still time to register to attend the Rethinking Fables Conference in-person or online (22-24 May, University of Kent, Canterbury) which includes keynotes by Susan McHugh, and Vinciane Despret @rethinkingfable.bsky.social 🐰🦉🐥 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thanks, Susan! We are very much looking forward to the reading of your piece at our storytelling event! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We are delighted to announce that Suniti Namjoshi, the distinguished fabulist and author of The Blue Donkey Fables (1988), Aesop the Fox (2018) and many other fables, will be taking part in the event. Please visit research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Call for Contributions, Symposium: "Foraging Futures: Human-Environment Relations in a Changing World" October 3–7, 2025 | Triglav National Park, Slovenia foraging.work/symposium/
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Foraging Futures – Symposium 2025 | Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We have been asked to spread the word about the upcoming Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC) in Bologna: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds." Event page: eisa-net.org/pec-2025/ #rccnews #conference #green #war #military #envhum
The graphic mainly contains further information about the conference and the call for proposals in blue and green script. Please go over to the event page (marked in description) to find out all the details. Here is a very brief summary of the corner dates: Title: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds;" Organizer: EISA 2025; Location: University of Bologna, Italy; Conference dates: 25-29 August 2025; Deadline for proposals: 20 March 2025, submit via EISA.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Registration is open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22-24, 2025: University of Kent, Canterbury UK & online) with Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Please spread the word – and we'd be delighted if you can join us. research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
These are dark & disconcerting times for the environment and our future. I am reposting our 'Call for Fables'. Drop us a line if you can think of a fable that speaks to you at this moment (& please try writing a fable yourself, to make sense of what’s happening) research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The recordings of the 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' symposium (26 July 2024) are now available.Thanks so much again to Prof Chris Danta and #ANU School of #Cybernetics for organising this in collaboration with us! @English_ANU 🙂 cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/07/2…
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AI and Other Scientific Fables
In aiming to establish a community in Australia around the topic of AI and literature, the AI and Other Scientific Fables Symposium couldn’t have been organised at a more perfect time.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A huge thank you to everyone who joined 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent!' and made it such a rewarding session. Let’s keep the conversation going! 🌿 Special thanks to Shreyasi Sharma for designing this fantastic workshop. 🙂
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A huge thank you to everyone who joined 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent!' and made it such a rewarding session. Let’s keep the conversation going! 🌿 Special thanks to @itswhilereading for designing this fantastic workshop. 🙂
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The recordings of the 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' symposium (26 July 2024) are now available. cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/07... Thanks so much again to Prof Chris Danta and #ANU School of #Cybernetics for organising this in collaboration with us! 😊
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AI and Other Scientific Fables
In aiming to establish a community in Australia around the topic of AI and literature, the AI and Other Scientific Fables Symposium couldn’t have been organised at a more perfect time.
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Thom van Dooren @thomvandooren.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’m thrilled with the final product of this multimedia essay we made on the critically endangered regent honeyeater. It can’t be viewed on a phone but if you’re near a big screen, check it out: www.curatorium.au/taja-journal...
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
It’s early November & if you have been to a mall/store, you’ve seen Christmas is nearly here. So time to start thinking about gifts. Why not buy that animal lover or medieval fan in your life the perfect gift: A copy of The Medieval Pig! boydellandbrewer.com/978183765168... (Also at online stores)
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The Medieval Pig - Boydell and Brewer
Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eating under an...
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Anna Shockley @guineapeople.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Amazing speakers. Do wait for Dr. Cass Lynch, who spent half her allotted time talking about colonialism/indigenous Australians like herself, and then described her ongoing effort to relocate 100 or so spiders who can live 50 years and over whose tunnels some govt. agency wants to make a footpath.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are thrilled to share our CFP for our final conference (May 22-24, 2025) with Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Proposals due by Dec 15. Please spread the word. 🙂🐦 please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you live in or around Kent, please join our in-person creative writing workshop 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent' (Nov 20, 2024, 2-4pm, U of Kent), with Shreyasi Sharma as our facilitator. 🌿For further details, please visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-en...
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Writing Environmental Fables in Kent : Creative writing workshop
Join us in Canterbury for acreative writing workshop where we'll be crafting environmental fables together. All welcome.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
I received an interesting call for fables from the project 'Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis'. Call is attached. The general website for the project is research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f... but I don't think the call itself is on there. #animalhist #envhum
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Call for Papers – Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis May 22-24, 2025 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (and online) Deadline: 15 December 2024 niche-canada.org/2024/09/26/c... #envhist #envhum #animalhistory
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Call for Papers - Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis
We believe that engaging collaboratively with fable animals and other nonhumans from all cultures and regions of the world will help us to tackle our global crises.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
If you live in or around Kent, please join our in-person creative writing workshop 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent' (Nov 20, 2024, 2-4pm, U of Kent), with @itswhilereading as our facilitator. 🌿For further details, please visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-envi…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Thanks for attending the 'Animal Languages' workshop and for making it such an engaging session. Special thanks to Leonie Cornips🐄, Ana M. Ochoa 🐳, and Andrea Gutierrez 🦜🐘 for their amazing papers. The idea of 'animal language' feels very different after this workshop. 🐁
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
'Animal Languages' online workshop happening this friday! Please join us. 🙂 🐁 x.com/rethinkingfabl…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Fascinated by 'animal languages'? Please join our online workshop on Oct 25, 2024, 3-5pm (UK time), featuring Leonie Cornips🐄, Ana M. Ochoa,🕊️ and Andrea Gutierrez🦜🐘, with Christiane Bongartz as a facilitator. All welcome. To register please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Delighted to host a talk by Prof Chris Danta (School of Cybernetics, Australia National University) in collaboration with the @UnikentICCI: ‘Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation’ (Oct 2nd, 2pm in Kennedy SR2, @UniKent)🙂
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
We are thrilled to share our CFP for our final conference (May 22-24, 2025) with Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Proposals due by Dec 15. Please spread the word. 🙂🐦 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
We just finished 'Global Fables'. 🌺Huge thanks to all the speakers for their fantastic papers and to everyone who participated. I learned so much & looking forward to future collaborations!
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Happening soon 🙂 x.com/rethinkingfabl…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Our last session is 'Future Global Fables' (Sep 13, 2-4 pm, UK time; online) featuring Gro Birgit Ween, Carrie Dohe🐝, scientic fairy tales (@HadarElyashiv, @NederCami) & 'Future Fables' (Cameo Marlatt, @guillemrubio & Shawn Bodden). All welcome research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Join us again tomorrow at 9:45 am UK time for Prof. Beatrice Gründler & the 'Continuity and Circulation of Fables in the Circum-Mediterranean' session, chaired by @Anthro_ChrisL, featuring @AmericanMaghreb @MariagraziaPor3 & Heidi Bayoumy All welcome! research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
We just finished Day 1 of ‘Global Fables’ with fantastic papers and discussions. Many thanks to everyone who joined us!🙂
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
The session starting soon. Hope to see you there 🙂 x.com/rethinkingfabl…
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Delighted to host a talk by artist Josie Rae Turnbull, ‘The Fabled Fortunes of a Fish: Sunset of the Arowana Industry’ (September 12, 5-6 pm UK time, online), as part of our ‘Global Fables’ symposium. Please join us and help spread the word! . research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…
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